{"id":3650,"date":"2026-09-07T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:04:01","slug":"the-horrors-of-anorexia-when-food-becomes-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"The Horrors of Anorexia: When Food Becomes a Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What may look like a struggle with food can actually be a serious psychiatric illness with potentially devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article6898894.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/PAY-Linn-Strmberg.jpg\" alt=\"Linn Str\u00f6mberg\" width=\"435\" height=\"952\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anorexia nervosa is not simply a diet taken too far.<\/p>\n<p>The frightening part is that the damage isn&#8217;t always obvious at first.<\/p>\n<p>It is a serious eating disorder in which a person may severely restrict food intake, experience an intense fear of gaining weight, and develop a distorted perception of their body. The illness can gradually affect almost every system in the body.<\/p>\n<p>As the body receives too little energy and nutrition, it begins conserving what it has. Heart rate and blood pressure can fall, body temperature can decrease, muscles can weaken, and hormonal changes can affect menstruation, bone health and other essential functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What may look like a struggle with food can actually be a serious psychiatric illness with potentially devastating consequences. Anorexia nervosa is not simply a diet taken&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mdrssa_facebook_image":"","_mdrssa_unique_id":"","_mdrssa_normalized_url":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}